April 14, 1961: Robert Carlyle is born.

Robert Carlyle is awesome. Basically, if he's in it, I'll watch it.

I resisted watching Once Upon a Time for ages—I don't have any sort of logical reason to offer up other than that I was disappointed in Grimm, and so that turned me off in regards to fairytale shows?—but I eventually broke down and started watching because I couldn't bear to miss out on Robert Carlyle as Rumpelstiltskin.

(It probably helped that it got added to Netflix Streaming, too.)

Anyway, in honor of his birthday, I'm pointing you back to my old post about Elizabeth C. Bunce's A Curse as Dark as Gold, winner of the 2009 Morris Award:

Curse has loads of atmosphere and the story feels familiar but, at the same time, new and different and surprising. Elizabeth C. Bunce's spin on protective circles was simple and just (I can't believe I'm about to say this, but here goes) lovely, and her Author's Note provides not only suggestions for further exploration but also her issues with the original story.

LOVE. THAT. BOOK.

Other Rumpelstiltskin reimiaginings that I should be aware of?